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Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of December 2019

» by January 4, 2020 at 5:55 pm » Comments (0)

Belated Happy New Year. Update now! Hello everyone. Better late than never! During the month of December 2019 there were updates from Adobe, Apple, Google, and Mozilla. You should update Firefox and ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of September 2019

» by October 3, 2019 at 8:28 pm » Comments (0)

Have you patched yet? Hello everyone, September has passed us by! Have you applied the latest Microsoft and non-Microsoft updates? A machine with the latest patches installed will be secure and protected ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of June 2019

» by July 9, 2019 at 9:03 pm » Comments (0)

You must patch third party programs Hello everyone, Here are the most important June patches for common third party programs. A few Microsoft updates included! Get updated as soon as possible. Windows Updates June ...more »

How I Fixed: Mid-2011 iMac Fans Running At Full Speed

» by January 1, 2019 at 5:26 pm » Comments (7)

Mid-2011 iMac Hello everyone, I have a wonderful 27" mid-2011 iMac. A few years ago I installed a new 1TB Hard Drive (spinning SATA). When I booted up the new install, the ...more »

How I Fixed: Windows 7 Won’t Update

» by July 2, 2017 at 10:16 pm » Comments (7)

Hello everyone, The great majority of my customers live in a resort/retirement community here in central Tennessee. Since they are older, they don't like change just for change's sake. Most of ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of July 2015

» by August 17, 2015 at 8:43 pm » Comments (1)

Hello everyone, I'm a bit late on this, but here they are: The Third Party Updates For The Month Of July 2015. Get updated as soon as possible! Key: Identifier, Vendor/Product, Product ...more »

How I Fixed: “Windows cannot be installed to this disk…..”

» by February 28, 2015 at 1:19 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, A client gave me a Dell 660s Windows 8.1 desktop that would not boot. It was stuck in an automatic repair loop, but nothing was being repaired. Just for good ...more »

Not Getting 50 Mbps Download Speed From Comcast? Here’s How! (Part 2)

» by October 14, 2014 at 1:21 pm » Comments (6)

Hello everyone, I have received many comments from my first Comcast post back in March of 2012 (June 2015 post here). Many people in my area, and around the country are ...more »

How I Optimized My New SSD Installation

» by July 16, 2014 at 11:42 am » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, In a previous post I described how I brought an old laptop back to life by installing a new SSD. In this post I would like to describe a ...more »

How I Fixed: “The User Profile Service failed the logon”

» by April 19, 2014 at 10:22 am » Comments (6)

Hello everyone, I got a call the other day from a frantic client. He was an experienced artist and he could not logon to his Windows account. His user account was ...more »